David Willetts has got a cheek, he's dodgy fecker. He had to resign a govt post for being found to have fudged evidence in the Cash for Questions inquiry.
THE Paymaster General, David Willetts, yesterday resigned from the Government following scathing criticism of his conduct by the Commons Standards and Privileges Committee.
Last night Quentin Davies, a Conservative member of the committee, said that his evidence to them was ``either obfuscation or avoidance'' and he was sorry that the former Minister was continuing to insist that he had told the truth.
The committee found that when a Government Whip, Mr Willetts - a rising star of the Tory party - had sought to influence an investigation into cash for questions involving former Minister Neil Hamilton by another committee of the House.
Even more damningly, the committee said that he had ``substantially aggravated the original offence'' by giving evidence to them which they could not accept as accurate.
And in the past he blamed feminism for preventing social mobility: In June 2011, Willetts said during the launch of the Government's social mobility strategy that movement between the classes had "stagnated" over the past 40 years, and Willetts attributed this partly to the entry of women into the workplace and universities for the lack of progress for men. "Feminism trumped egalitarianism", he said, adding that women who would otherwise have been housewives had taken university places and well-paid jobs that could have gone to ambitious working-class men.